The internet lit up a couple days ago when pictures of The Doctor and his new companion showed up online. People oohed over his natty new threads. People aahed at how adorbs Jenna-Louise Coleman continues to be. Some people told the other people that the term "adorbs" makes them sound like slapdick assholes. Those people responded with requests to "totes fuck yourselves," but common ground was eventually reached when people on both sides of of the slangtinental divide agreed that no matter how much of a mon-chi-chi this Selena Gomez lookalike might be, she has to be a better companion than Rose Tyler.
Which of course, got me to thinking. "Huh," I thought, "I'm certain that somewhere on the internet, someone has actually compiled a list of the 10 best companions the Doctor has had since Russell T. Davies helped bring the old man back to prominence in 2005. I'm almost doubly certain that those lists are wrong, because I didn't write them."
AND SO:
10) Martha Jones
It's not that her main characteristic was "useless pining," it's that I can't remember a single thing she did besides moon over the Doctor and pout about his relationship with Rose. I just sat here for five straight minutes trying to remember anything of worth, and I remembered that she carried a big ass gun once, but I think that was in Torchwood, not Doctor Who, and then I realized I'd just wasted five minutes thinking about Martha Jones, and I got mad at myself.